Syllabus

Book

Students must buy one book:

Dahlerup, Drude (2018), Has democracy failed women?  Cambridge: Polity Press

Articles/book chapters:

(Titles marked with * are from books you may borrow at ISS. Other articles will be available either in printed compendia handed out first day of class, or online (requires UiO log in).

• Kangas, Olli, Palme, Joakim og Markus Kainu (2016) «The Nordic Welfare State Model» chapter in Det Norske Samfunn Bind 3. Gyldendal: Oslo p. 38 – 57 (19 p)
• Skjeie, Hege & Teigen, Mari (2017) “The Nordic Gender Equality Model: Comparing Scores” short version of a chapter in The Nordic Model of political science – challenged, but still viable. Knutsen, Oddbjørn (ed.) (18 pages) http://www.samfunnsforskning.no/core/bilder/artikler/the-nordic-gender-equality-model.-comparing-scores-%28short-version%29.pdf
• Holst, Cathrine (2018). Scandinavian Feminism and Gender Partnership, In Nina Witoszek & Atle Midttun (ed.),  Sustainable Modernity: The Nordic Model and Beyond.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-1138718210.  Kapittel 6.  s 102 – 118
• Lister, Ruth 2009, ”A Nordic Nirvana? Gender, Citizenship, and Social Justice in the Nordic Welfare States” in Social Politics 16 (2) 2009. Pp 242-278 (36p)
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum; Rudberg, Monica 2007. Fun in Gender - Youth and Sexuality, Class and Generation. Nora : Nordic journal of women's studies 2007;15(2-3):100-113, https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740701526782
• Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg 2008, “A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Policy Press, Bristol, pp 1-26. (26p)
• Hernes, Helga (1987) “Welfare state citizenship of Scandinavian women” chapter from Welfare State and Woman Power: Essays in State Feminism. Norwegian University Press (30 p)
• Borchorst, Anette and Birte Siim 2008, ”Women friendly policies and state feminisms: Theorizing Scandinavian gender equality” in Feminist Theory 2008 9:207 (15p). 
• Kantola, Johanna and Judith Squires 2012, “From stat feminism to market feminism?” International Political Science Review 33(4), pp 382-400 
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum (2017) “Feelings and the Social Transformation of Gender” introduction chapter from Feeling Gender. A Generational and Psychosocial Approach. London Palgrave Macmillian p 1-22 (22p)
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum and Monica Rudberg 2000, “Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations. The Way Out and Up”. The European Journal of Women’s Studies 7 (4). pp 423-453. (31p)
• Widerberg, Karin 2000, “Harriet Holter: A Pioneer in Gender Studies and Sociology”, Acta Sociologica 43 (4), pp 413-420. (8p) 
• Aarseth, Helene 2007, “Between Labour and Love: The Re-erotization of Home-making in Egalitarian Couples within a Nordic Context”. NORA Vol. 15, No 2-3 pp 133-143. (21p) 
• *Borchorst, Anette 2008, “Women-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition?, Policy Press, Bristol, pp 27-43. (17p)
• *Wetterberg, Christina Carlsson and Kari Melby 2008, “The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context”. Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. The limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy Press, pp 43-62. (20p)
• Smeby, Kristine Warhuus (2017) “When work meets childcare – The competing logics of mothering and gender equality.” in Brandt, Halrynjo & Kvande (2017) (eds.) Work-Family Dynamics: Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals. Routledge
• Korsvik, Trine Rogg 2011, "Childcare policy since the 1970s in the “most gender equal country in the world”: a field of controversy and grass root activism”. European Journal of Women’s Studies 2011-18, pp135-53 (19p)
• Anderssen, Norman & Hellesund, Tone (2009) “Heteronormative Consensus in the Norwegian Same-Sex Adoption Debate?” Journal of Homosexuality Vol 56 (1) Pages 102-120 (18 p.) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918360802551597
• Hook, J, L. (2010) "Gender Inequality in the Welfare State: Sex Segregation in Housework", 1965-2003. American Journal of Sociology 115 (5): 1480-1523 (44 p.).
• Gislason, Ingolfur V 2011, “Introduction” in Gislason, Ingolfur V. and Gudny Björk Eydal (eds.) Parental leave, childcare and gender equality in the Nordic countries. TemaNord 2011:562 pp 13-30 (18 p)
• Dahlerup, Drude (2018) “Exclusion without words” (chapter 1, 1-27) “Breaking Male Dominance in Politics” (chapter 2, 28-58) and the first pages of “The Impact of Gender Quotas” (chapter 3, 59-68) from: Has democracy failed women?  Cambridge: Polity Press (1-68, 68 p)
• Teigen, Mari 2011, “Quotas in Corporate Boards” in Kirsti Niskanen (ed.): Gender and Power in the Nordic Countries, 2011. NIKK publication 2011:1. p. 87-110. (24 p) 
• Railo, Erkka 2014, ”Women’s Magazines, the Female Body, and Political Participation” in NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 2014 1. pp 48-62 (13 p). 
• Ekenstam, Claes 2005, “Manly or unmanly? Fear of falling”. NIKK magasin 3-2005, pp 27-31 (5p)
• Hearn, Jeff, Marie Nordberg, Kjerstin Andersson, Dag Balkmar, Lucs Gottzén, Roger Klinth, Keith Pringle and Linn Sandberg 2012, ”Hegemonic Masculinity and Beyond: 40 Years of Research in Sweden” in Men and Masculinities 2012 15: 31 (19p).
• Farstad, Gunhild R. & Stefansen, Kari (2015) “Involved fatherhood in the Nordic context: dominant narratives, divergent approaches” NORMA Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies, Volume 10 - Issue 1 p. 55-70 (15 p.) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18902138.2015.1013348?journalCode=rnor20
• Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum and Monica Rudberg 2000, “Gender, Love and Education in Three Generations. The Way Out and Up”. The European Journal of Women’s Studies 7 (4). pp 423-453. (31p)
• Predelli, Line Nyhagen & Beatrice Halsaa (2012) “Political Opportunities and Violence against Women” from Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women’s Movements. Strategic Sisterhood. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillian (chapter 4, 86-104, 18p)
• Bergman, Solveig 1999, ”Women in New Social Movements” in Bergquist, Christina et al. (eds.): Equal Democracies? Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press. ISBN: 82-00-12799-0. pp 98-120 (20p). 
• Rydström, Jens 2011, “Summary and conclusions” in Rydström, Jens: Odd Couples. A History of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia. Amsterdam: Aksant (11p)
• New waves for old rights? Women’s mobilization and bodily rights in Turkey and Norway Sevil Sümer, Hande Eslen-Ziya. European Journal of Women’s Studies 2017, Vol. 24(1) 23 –38
• https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506815619878
• Shepherding desire - Sexual health promotion in Finland from the 1940s to the 1990s Helen, I ; Yesilova, K Acta Sociologica, 2006 Sep, Vol.49(3), pp.257-272 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0001699306067708
• Abortion, birth control, and contraception: fertility decline in Norway Sogner, Sølvi. Journal of interdisciplinary history, Oct 2003, Vol.XXXIV(2), pp.209-234 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3657096?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
• J Arousell, A Carlbom, E Larsson, S Johnsdotter, B Essén, 7.3-O8
• Unintended consequences of gender equality promotion in Swedish contraceptive counselling, European Journal of Public Health, Volume 28, Issue suppl_1, May 2018, cky047.254, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky047.254
• Haavet, Inger. Milk, mothers and marriage. Family policy formation in Norway and its neighbouring countries in the twentieth century. I: Fra side 189. Christiansen, Niels Finn, Inger Elisabeth Haavet, and Per Haave. The Nordic Model of Welfare : A Historical Reappraisal. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2006. Print. (available at the university library)

• Hem, Nordhagen and Børdahl. (2018). "Always stay cheerful – health information in the 1920s", Tidsskriftet den norske legeforening 2018.

  https://tidsskriftet.no/en/2018/10/medisinsk-historie/always-stay-cheerful-health-information-1920s

• Borchorst, Anette et al. (2012) “Institutionalizing Intersectionality in the Nordic Countries: Anti-Discrimination and Equality in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden” chapter in Institutionalizing Intersectionality The Changing Nature of European Equality Regimes Editors: Krizsan, A., Skjeie, H., Squires, J. (Eds.) p. 59 – 88 (29 p.)
• Siim, Birte & Skjeie, Hege (2008) “Tracks, intersections and dead ends. Multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway” Ethnicities Vol 8(3), p. 322-344 (22 p.) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1468796808092446
• Gullestad, Marianne (2007) Chapter/excerpt from “Invisible fences: reinventing sameness and difference” from Plausible Prejudice, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget  (chapter VI  168-192, 24 p)
• Bredal, Anja (2011). Border control to prevent forced marriages: Choosing between protecting women and protecting the nation. Gill, Aisha; Anitha, Sundari (Red.). Forced Marriage: Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective. kapittel 4. s. 90-111. Zed Books.
• * Mulinari, Diana (2009) “Women-friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden” from Melby, Kari, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg (eds.): Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia. Policy Press, Bristol. 167 -181 (14 pages)
• Knobblock, I. and R. Kuokkanen (2015). "Decolonizing Feminism in the North: A Conversation with Rauna Kuokkanen." NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 23(4): 275-281. (6 p.) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08038740.2015.1090480?journalCode=swom20
• Ahmed, Sara (2017). «Introduction: Bringing Feminist Theory Home», in Living a feminist life (S. Ahmed) London: Duke University Press. Pp 1-19. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6319-4_601.pdf
• Askola, Heli (2019). “Wind from the North, don’t go forth? Gender equality and the rise of populist nationalism in Finland”, European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol.26(1), pp.54-69
• Stryker, Susan (2006), “(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An introduction to Transgender studies”, in The transgender studies reader (eds. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle). Pp: 1-17
• Monro, Surya and Janneke Van Der Ros (2017). “Trans* and gender variant citizenship and the state in Norway”, Critical Social Policy, vol. 38 (1). Pages 57-78.
• Roen, Katrina (2001). “”Either/Or” and “Both/Neither”: Discursive tensions in transgender politics”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society”, vol 27 (2). Pp: 501-522.
• Enander, Viveka & Holmberg, Carin (2008) “Why Does She Leave? The Leaving Process(es) of Battered Women” Health Care for Women International, 29 (3), 200-226, (26p) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07399330801913802
• Bredal, Anja (2014) “Ordinary v. Other Violence? Conseptualising Honour Based Violence in Scandinavian Public Policies” in Gill A.K., Strange C., Roberts K. (eds) ‘Honour’ Killing and Violence. Theory, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan. (20 p.)
• Gill, Aisha K. (2014) “Introduction: ‘Honour’ and ‘Honour’-Based Violence: Challenging Common Assumptions” from Gill A.K., Strange C., Roberts K. (eds) ‘Honour’ Killing and Violence. Theory, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan (chapter 1, 1-23, 23p).
• Langvasbråten, Trude 2008, “A Scandinavian Model? Gender Equality Discourses on Multiculturalism”, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 2008 (15): pp. 32-52 (21p) http://sp.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol15/issue1/index.dtl#ARTIC
• Nadim, Marjan (2016) “Undermining the Male Breadwinner Ideal? Understandings of Women’s Paid Work among Second-Generation Immigrants in Norway”. Sociology Vol.50 (1) 109-124, Sage. (15 p.) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038514560259
• Deniz Akin (2017) Queer asylum seekers: translating sexuality in Norway, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43:3, 458-474, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1243050
• Skjeie, Hege & Mari Teigen 2005, “Political Construction of Gender Equality: Travelling Towards …. A Gender Balanced Society?”, NORA 2 (13), pp 187-197. (11p) 
• Lister, Ruth 2009, ”A Nordic Nirvana? Gender, Citizenship, and Social Justice in the Nordic Welfare States” in Social Politics 16 (2) 2009. Pp 242-278 (36p). 
• Carstensen, Gunilla (2016) Sexual Harassment Reconsidered: The Forgotten Grey Zone, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 24:4, 267-280, DOI: 10.1080/08038740.2017.1292314